Failure. Without palliatives and without sweeteners. It’s the word that best defines the weekend of Aston Martin inside United States Grand Prix. The Silverstone team arrived at the Circuit of the Americas for its debut six improvementswith which AMR24 was expected to be competitive again, at least to fight for points, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The team’s weekend was disastrous from the first moment. The experiment of introducing improvements over a weekend with a sprint format was not the best idea, and the shadow of the so-called “worst” is once again long.
SATURDAY, Fernando Alonso He managed to mask the AMR24’s many shortcomings with a brutal lap in Q2 and took advantage of the chaos of Q3 to qualify eighth, which would become seventh on the grid due to a penalty at George Russellbut that wasn’t going to be enough.
A race to forget
The race was the real cotton test for Aston Martin, and this time, as has become customary, it failed. At the exit, Alonso lost three positionsfalling to tenth place, and although he seemed to have the pace to advance, the AMR24’s lack of speed caused him to fall back.
Alonso was helplesswith nothing to hold on to, and little by little the drops began. It happened first Hulkenbergthen I passed it Lawsonand in the final stretch, when you really notice if a car is really good at racing, it succumbed to Franco Colapinto, Magnussen And Gasly.
Austin, which was supposed to be the beginning of the end of Aston Martin’s crisis, may have been the beginning of a new nightmare. In seven days, the Mexican Grand Prix will determine whether what happened this weekend is an isolated case or whether it will be the norm for the remaining five Grands Prix.
